SmartWay For Shippers

As a company shipping freight cargo, you know that the business landscape is rapidly changing. Your customers and shareholders are demanding more environmental accountability and carbon-risk assessment. And when it comes to the freight side of your supply chain, gathering reliable and credible data from your carriers and logistics providers can be a challenge.

Fortunately, SmartWay can help you
address these challenges AND help the environment.

EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership is a market-driven collaboration to help businesses move goods in cleaner, more efficient, lower carbon ways.

Through SmartWay, your company can:

Benchmark and reduce your freight supply chain carbon footprint

Use SmartWay tools and data to do credible carbon accounting and reporting

Click the Image to Watch the SmartWay "Any Way You Ship It, Move it the SmartWay" Video.

You will be in great company when you join SmartWay!

With over 250 SmartWay Shipper partners, you will be among the global leaders in freight sustainability.

Why should you join SmartWay? SmartWay Shippers say it best...

"At Kimberly-Clark, we see SmartWay as both good environmental policy and good business. The transportation strategies that SmartWay recommends are saving us fuel, lessening our carbon footprint, and making a big difference in bringing us closer to our sustainability goals."

– Stelios Chrysandreas, Transportation Manager, Kimberly Clark

“ We encourage shippers, carriers, and logistics providers to get involved in SmartWay and use it to the maximum because participation will make your operation both more environmentally efficient and more economically effective.”

“ SmartWay has been a great partner in helping us implement best practices in our environmentally focused fleet management.”

– Jesus Garciarivas, American Logistics, Hewlett Packard

Joining SmartWay is straight forward (and free)!
Get started today!

Ready to reduce your carbon footprint while increasing your environmental performance? Just click below and follow the three simple steps to join.

1) Make sure "SmartWay Shipper" is the right partner type for your company

Partner Categories and Eligibility

SmartWay has room for just about everyone, and includes multiple key Partner types that cover the range of freight shipping activities and stakeholders. These include all retailers, manufacturers, distributors, cargo owners and other shippers, as well as private fleets, commercial carriers, and 3rd party logistics providers. Each partner plays an important role in the partnership process and benefits from their participation and commitments.

The Shipper Tool contains everything you need to join SmartWay and become a registered Partner in good standing. The tool contains guidance on each page to help you submit your tool, including screen demos and definitions. We've also provided user guides and worksheets below for added support.

To register as a SmartWay Shipper:

Download the current year's tool and the associated guidance documents and worksheets (as needed).

SUBMITTING YOUR
TOOL: Please follow the instructions in the tool for saving your file, then submit via email to smartway_transport@epa.gov for evaluation.

*Note: EPA cannot provide technical support for preparing files for importing. Please work with your internal IT department to make sure data files are set up properly for import.

3) Wait for confirmation of your partnership status.

Once your tool is evaluated and approved, a SmartWay Partner Account Manager will notify you via e-mail. You will be provided with a registration number and your company will be listed as a partner on the SmartWay website.